THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!

18 Sep 09 - The Washington Post recently praised a new study
claiming that the Arctic is warming much faster than originally
thought.

But the study is based on bogus science.

The study makes use of a ‘hockey stick’ graph, based on the original
world temperature hockey stick graph of Professor Michael Mann, a graph
that has been shown to be incorrect.

“The fact that the hockey stick graph has been discredited entirely did
not stop Washington Post journalist Juliet Eilperin from lauding
the same type of maths in the current Arctic ice report,” says this
article in Engineering News.

“Unfortunately, it appears that the Washington Post is trying to
manipulate its readers into holding a particular viewpoint, rather than
attempting to project the truth.”

The Engineering News article then mentions prominent climate
experts, such as Dr Richard Lindzen, of MIT, and Steve McIntyre,
publisher of Climate Audit, who both questioned the report’s
objectivity.

Dr Fred Singer, former director of the US Weather
Satellite Services, points out that actual temperature data show, in
fact, that 1935 was the warmest year in the Arctic.

Arctic scientist Igor Polyakov also showed that the
warmest period in the Arctic was from the 1930s through to the 1940s.

A new Arctic study published by Håkan Grudd, of
Stockholm University’s Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary
Geology, confirms the previous studies.

The Arctic is not warmer now than it was
previously, says Grudd. “Periods around AD750, 1000, 1400, and 1750 were
all equally warm, or warmer.”

“The Washington Post does, at least, interview the credible
scientist, Singer,” says the Engineering New article. Singer “pointed
out that the Medieval Warm Period lasted from 800 to 1300 AD and
exhibited higher temperatures than the last 30 years of the present.”

“The Medieval Warm Period really existed – there is no scientific or
historical doubt about that. It was warm, and it was 500 years in
duration. History shows that people prospered and were healthier than
during cold periods.

“Industrial greenhouse-gas emissions did not cause the Medieval Warm
Period, so why blindly blame gaseous emissions now? That is bad science.
One would have expected the Washington Post to open its eyes a bit
wider.”